Charles John Besley Veryard (1900–7 September 1967) was a
City of Perth
The City of Perth is a local government areas of Western Australia, local government area and body, within the Perth metropolitan area, which is the capital of Western Australia. The local government is commonly known as Perth City Council. T ...
Councillor from 1927 until 1964 and
Lord Mayor of Perth from 1964 to his death in 1967.
Veryard was also a manager and director of West Cycles. He attended
Hale School
Hale School is an independent, Anglican day and boarding school for boys, located in Wembley Downs, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
Named after the school founded by Bishop Mathew Blagden Hale in 1858, Hale School claims to ...
and played three seasons of football with
West Perth Football Club
The West Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Falcons, is an Australian rules football club located in Joondalup, Western Australia. West Perth competes in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW) and is the oldest exis ...
between 1917 and 1920.
The
Charles Veryard Reserve in Bourke Street,
North Perth is named in his honour.
In August 1951, Veryard was convicted and fined for tax fraud after understating his income.
His grandfather,
John Veryard, was a member of state parliament in Western Australia and a mayor of the
Municipality of Leederville
The Municipality of Leederville was a local government area in inner suburban Perth, Western Australia, based around the suburb of Leederville.
It was established as the Leederville Road District on 3 May 1895. It was renamed the Municipality of ...
.
Veryard clan in Australia
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References
External links
*http://bluwiki.com/go/Familytree
1900 births
1967 deaths
People educated at Hale School
West Perth Football Club players
Mayors and lord mayors of Perth, Western Australia
Australian rules footballers from Western Australia
20th-century Australian politicians
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